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BrumHour / 2016 Look back / HBO Max UK
Ryan chats to David Massey aka BrumHour who's been promoting the best of Birmingham since 2013. Leigh and Sam pick some Video game and Film highlights back from our launch year in 2016. Keith preps us in readiness for the launch of HBO MAX in the UK on the 26th of March plus our regular One Geek Thing! Full links at https://geekybrummie.com/issues/geeky-brummie-podcast-year-10-issue-01/_____ Geeky Brummie this issue were: Special Guest - David Massey -https://brumhour.co.uk/https://x.com/brumhourhttps://www.instagram.com/brumhourhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/brumhour/ Ryan Parish - Host / Writer / Producer - https://bsky.app/profile/ryanparish.bsky.social Keith Bloomfield - Host / Writer / Director / Editor - https://bsky.app/profile/hardluckhotel.bsky.social Leigh Price - Host / Writer - https://bsky.app/profile/bobthepetferret.bsky.social Sam Edwards - Host / Writer - https://bsky.app/profile/sdedwards89.bsky.social Mat Lovell - Producer - https://bsky.app/profile/mrmatlovell.bsky.social Viv Parish - Executive Producer - https://bsky.app/profile/vivparish.bsky.social Chapters (00:00:00) - Intro(00:01:45) - Interview - David Massey from #BrumHour(00:19:30) - 2016 Look back - Movies(00:42:15) - HBO Max UK Launch(00:52:00) - 2016 Look back - Video games(01:10:00) - Memoriam - James Van Der Beek & Catherine O'Hara(01:19:00) - One Geek Thing(01:44:15) - Outro
Golden Globe Nominations | Game Awards | Warner Bros Discovery Sale
It’s the final Geeky Brummie of the year! In this bumper episode, join us as we go through all the Golden Globe nominations and pick our preferred winners. Look back at The Game Awards and see if anything other than Clair Obscur Expedition 33 won awards.Full links at https://geekybrummie.com/issues/geeky-brummie-podcast-year-09-issue-09/ Chapters (00:00:00) - Intro(00:01:10) - Golden Globe Nominations(00:35:00) - The Game Awards 2025(01:00:00) - Warner Bros Discovery Sale(01:17:45) - Gift Giving(01:23:30) - One Geek Thing of 2026...(01:41:40) - Outro
Movie Review Catch Up | What is going on with Xbox?
Join Geeky Brummie as we step back into the studio. We catch up and review some of the films released this year. Just wonder what the hell is going on at Xbox, plus One Geek Thing! Timestamps:00:00:00 - Intro00:01:15 - Movie Review Catch Up00:39:45 - What is going on with Xbox?01:04:45 - One Geek Thing…01:29:10 - Outro Full links at https://geekybrummie.com/issues/geeky-brummie-podcast-year-09-issue-08/ Chapters (00:00:00) - Intro(00:01:15) - Movie Review Catch Up(00:39:45) - What is going on with Xbox?(01:04:45) - One Geek Thing...(01:27:06) - Outro
EA Goes Private | Halloween Costumes - Tips, Tricks and Treats | Spooky Recommendations
Join Geeky Brummie as Keith takes the rains for a spooktacular epsode. We discuss EA’s purchase, give you our best Halloween costume tips, pick our favourite spooky things, plus our regular One Geek Thing! Timestamps:00:00:00 – Intro00:01:50 – EA goes private in $65bn deal00:15:40 – Halloween Costumes – Tips, Tricks and Treats00:42:00 – Spooky Recommendations01:03:40 – One Geek Thing…01:27:06 – Outro Full links at https://geekybrummie.com/issues/geeky-brummie-podcast-year-09-issue-07/
Spirited Away at Birmingham Botanical Gardens | The Sekine Quartet | Midlands Comic Stores | BAFF Preview
Join Geeky Brummie on Tour as we head to Birmingham Botanical Gardens for our screening of Spirited Away and speak to The Sekine Quartet. Keith gives you a tour of local comic Head to Lostalgia in the Custard Factory to give you a preview of some of the titles for BAFF 2025, plus our regular One Geek Thing!
Goodbye Ozzy | Bulls in the City | Pacman at 45
Join Geeky Brummie on Tour as we discuss the loss of Birmingham’s own Price of Darkness, head to BN Cross Stor Birmingham to chat Pacman at 45 and Sam takes us on a tour of the Bulls in the City. Plus a BAFF update and our regular One Geek Thing Timestamps Intro – 00:00:00Pacman at 45 – Pop up at Bandai Namco Cross Store BirminghamCon – 00:01:30Wild in Art – Bulls in the City across Birmingham – 00:06:55Birmingham Anime Film Festival Update – 00:08:30Goodbye Ozzy Osborne – 00:10:15One Geek Thing… – 00:12:20Outro – 00:28:30 Full links at https://geekybrummie.com/issues/geeky-brummie-podcast-year-09-issue-05/
Hi Vis Comic Con | One Geek Thing
It's High Vis Comic Con! Join us as we speak to the guests on a tour around the con, see the amazing graffitti are and a whole lot more! Plus our regular One Geek Thing Thanks to all our interviewees and a big thanks to Olly MacNamee for inviting us down! Full links at https://geekybrummie.com/issues/geeky-brummie-podcast-year-09-issue-04/ Timestamps:00:00:00 Intro00:02:45 High Vis Comic Con 00:04:00 John Wagner 00:05:55 Tatvision 00:06:30 Al Ewing 00:08:30 Caspar Wijngaard 00:09:10 Christian Ward 00:10:25 IAmSprite 00:11:45 Liskbot 00:13:45 Noel K Hannan 00:14:30 Shane Chebsey - Scratch Comics 00:15:20 Sam Gardner Jr 00:16:45 Steve Tanner - Time Bomb Comics 00:17:45 Kev F Sutherland00:18:15 One Geek Thing 00:19:00 Ashbees100 00:23:00 Clair Obscur Expedition 33 00:30:00 Poker Face 00:35:00 My Neighbour Totoro - Stage Show00:38:30 Outro
Hi Vis Comic Con | Preview
Join us as we head to head to Kings Heath, tour the locations and tell you all about Hi Vis Comic Con – happening on 21st June 2025! We speak to co-founder Olly MacNamee look at the the guests, activities on offer and more. Hi Vis Comic Con:https://www.facebook.com/events/593292570255181/https://www.instagram.com/highvisfestival/https://www.instagram.com/highviscomiccon/https://highviscomic-con.comhttps://highvisfestival.co.uk/ Cosmic Rays at The Hare and Houndshttps://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Birmingham/Hare-And-Hounds-Kings-Heath/Cosmic-Rays/40970825/ Birmingham Anime Film Festivalhttps://www.baff.uk
Bandai Namco Cross Birmingham | Nintendo Switch 2 | Trailer Talk
Join us for our third issue of Geeky Brummie Year 9. Ryan and Leigh head to the launch osf the new Bandai Namco Cross Store in Birmingham, we look at the Nintendo Switch 2 ahead of it's launch in June. It's a mixed bag of trailers in Trailer Talk, plus our regular One Geek Thing. Chapters (00:00:00) - Intro(00:01:00) - Bandai Namco Cross Store Birmingham Launch(00:17:00) - Nintendo Switch 2(00:38:15) - Trailer Talk - Superman / Tron: Ares / The Naked Gun / Gunslingers(01:01:45) - One Geek Thing...(01:22:45) - Outro
INVINCIBLE S3 | New Birmingham Geek Shops | The State of Comics
Join us for our second issue of Geeky Brummie Year 9 as look at Invincible season 3, Keith updates us on the current state of the comics industry and it's impact on his comics roundup, we investigate two new Geeky openings in Brum, plus our regular ‘One Geek Thing’.___ Timestamps:00:00:00 - Intro00:06:00 - Invincible season 3 review00:27:15 - The state of UK comics & changes to the comics roundup00:47:10 - New geeky shops in Birmingham01:05:20 - One Geek Thing...01:28:00 - Outro Full links at https://geekybrummie.com/issues/geeky-brummie-podcast-year-09-issue-02/
David Lynch Retrospective | 2025 Preview
Join us for our first issue of Geeky Brummie Year 9 as we pay our respects to the legendary auteur director David Lynch who sadly passed in January. We look at what's going on in the worlds of TV, Gaming, Film and Comics across 2025, plus our regular ‘One Geek Thing’. Full links at https://geekybrummie.com/issues/geeky-brummie-podcast-year-09-issue-01/
Best of 2024 | Secret Santa
Join us for our final issue of Geeky Brummie Year 8 as we gaze backwards into 2024 and pick our favourite things, the team get festive with a secret santa, plus our regular ‘One Geek Thing’.
eXit to Bluesky | Godzilla at 70 | Trailer Talk
Join us for a mammoth Geeky Brummie Year 8 – Issue 10 as we approach the end of 2024! We discuss what's gone wrong with Social Media and the mass eXodus to Bluesky. As the big G hits his 70th birthday, we discuss his impact on modern cinema. Tony Elvin of The Wine Events company is our 'Geek of the Week'. We round up the latest batch of trailers in 'Trailer Talk', plus our regular ‘One Geek Thing’.
What makes a successful modern Horror? | Fave Foreign Language Horror Movies | Nekro.Style
Join us for Geeky Brummie Year 8 – Issue 9 as we get into spooky season! We try and work out why studios like Blumhouse and A24 get horror 'right', as Hollywood struggles. We visit artist @richiethecaterpillar aka nekro.style at his pop up exhitiion Hanged, Drawn & Jewellery Quarter at The Hive. We pick our favourite foreign language Horror films, plus our regular ‘One Geek Thing’.
Birmingham Anime Film Festival 2024 | One Geek Thing
Join us for Geeky Brummie Year 8 – Issue 8 as we head to Mockingbird Cinema for Birmingham Anime Film Festival 2024, pick our faves from the festival, plus our regular ‘One Geek Thing’.
BAFF24 | The Boy and the Heron | One Geek Thing
Join us for Geeky Brummie Year 8 – Issue 7 as we head to Birmingham Botanical Gardens for a Gardens Cinema Screening of 'The Boy and the Heron' in the run up to Birmingham Anime Festival 2024 , plus our regular ‘One Geek Thing’.
Star Wars Acolyte | Beverly Hills Cop Axel F | The Fall Guy | Trailer Talk
Join us for Geeky Brummie Year 8 – Issue 6 as we discuss TMNT Shellebration, which we co-hosted with Stacy’s Pop Culture Parlour & The Mockingbird. We do mini-reviews of The Fall Guy, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F and Star Wars: The Acolyte, . We pick out some upcoming trailers with the return of ‘Trailer Talk’, we look at how Sci-Fi public transport gets it oh so wrong, plus our regular ‘One Geek Thing’. Full links at https://geekybrummie.com/issues/geeky-brummie-podcast-year-08-issue-06/
Geeky Brummie - Year 8 - Issue 05 | AnimeconUK Special
Join Leigh, Keith and Ryan at AnimeConUK 2024, held on 15th and 16th June 2024. Links at https://geekybrummie.com/issues/geeky-brummie-podcast-year-08-issue-05/
Why is capitalism ruining gaming | Anniversaries | One Geek Thing | #GeekyGoingsOn | Geek of the Week
Join us for Geeky Brummie Year 8 – Issue 4 as we discuss wtf is going on with innovative games studios being shutttered left right and centre, introduce you to Nick Layland from Worlds Apart Birmingham in ‘Geek of the Week’, lookkat some of the many anniversaries arriving this year including Star Wars: Episode 1, Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja (or Hero) Turtles. Plus the return of #GeekyGoingsOn!, and our ‘One Geek Thing’.
Animecon UK | BAFTA Game Awards | X-Men '97 | Geek of the Week
Join us for Geeky Brummie Year 8 – Issue 3 as we preview all things Animecon UK with special guest Pete Burke, introduce you to Chris Brown from Birmingham Gaymers in ‘Geek of the Week’, talk about THAT X-Men ’97 episode, look at some other geeky events coming over the next few weeks, plus our ‘One Geek Thing’.
DUNE: Part 2 | A Tasty Oscar Debrief | Geek of the Week
Join us for Geeky Brummie’s Year 8 – Issue 2 as we nitpick Dune Part 2, introduce you to Adam Windsor, our ‘Geek of the Week’ from Sliced’n’ Diced in Selly Oak, look at how close we got with out Oscar Predictions , plus our ‘One Geek Thing’. Timestamps and links at: https://geekybrummie.com/issues/geeky-brummie-podcast-year-8-issue-02
Madame Web | Embracer Implosion | Oscar Predictions | Geek Events in 2024
And we're back for 2024! Join us for Geeky Brummie's 8th Birthday as we chat Madame web, what the hell is going on in the gaming industry, introduce you to Stacey Taylor, our first 'Geek of the Week'! Try and predict the pooscars, look at what's coming up in brum with a geeky flavour throughout 2024, plus our 'One Geek Thing'.Timestamps and links at: https://geekybrummie.com/issues/geeky-brummie-podcast-year-8-issue-01/
Christmas Special | Geeky Gifty Guide | 2023 Highlights | MCM Comic Con Birmingham December 2023
Join us for a festive issue of the Geeky Brummie Podcast! This time we pick some local (and not so local gifts for the geeks in your life, pick our highlights from 2023 plus bring some presents from MCM Santa’s sack for Keith! Timestamps and links at: https://geekybrummie.com/issues/geeky-brummie-podcast-year-7-issue-09
The Game Awards | What's going wrong with the MCU? | One Geek Thing
On this issue, we look at ‘The Game Awards’ nominations for 2023, review The Marvels, and delve into what’s going wrong with the latest run of Marvel movies and shows, plus our ‘One Geek Thing’. Timestamps and links at: https://geekybrummie.com/issues/geeky-brummie-podcast-year-7-issue-08/
Halloween Special
On this issue, its a spooky special! We look into what makes a good horror franchise judge the tip 20 'horror' films if they are really deserving of being called horror movies, plus our ‘One Geek Thing’. Timestamps and links at: https://geekybrummie.com/issues/geeky-brummie-podcast-year-7-issue-07/
International Podcast Day | Birmingham Anime Film Festival
It’s Super-duper Bonus Podcast Episode! Join Mat, Sam, Keith and Ryan as we talk about our first and fave podcasts and anime movies as we record during Birmingham Anime Film Festival at the Mockingbird Cinema, Birmingham!
Games for the rest of 2023 | Blue Beetle | Poundshop Cosplay
On this issue, we look at some of the best games coming up for the remainder of 2023, watch Blue Beetle, talk about the ongoing entertainment strikes in the US, the return of Poundshop Cosplay, plus our ‘One Geek Thing’. Timestamps and links at: https://geekybrummie.com/issues/geeky-brummie-podcast-year-7-issue-06/
Barbenheimer | Low Effort Game Ports | Birmingham Anime Film Festival
On this issue, we review Barbie and Oppenheimer, why the latest Rockstar release has got a lot of people angry, the upcoming Birmingham Anime Film Festival, plus our ‘One Geek Thing’. Timestamps and links at:https://geekybrummie.com/issues/geeky-brummie-podcast-year-7-issue-05/
Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 | Making a Website with Paul Lacey | The Future of AI
On this issue. We're joined in the studio by WordPress Wizard and Tech Specialist Paul Lacey to discuss all about the web and AI. We review the final (for now?) MCU film from James Gunn, Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3. The king of Poundshop Cosplay has a new decree plus our 'One Geek Thing'. Join us for an action packed episode!
Dungeons & Dragons Honor Among Thieves | Star Wars Celebration | Poundshop Cosplay
On this issue. We review a (finally) good D&D movie. We look at all the things revealed at Star Wars celebration. We judge the outcome of the first batch of […]
Why does John Wick work? | Steam Deck Anniversary | Movie Quiz | Poundshop Cosplay
On this issue, it”s a full house! We talk about the popularity of the John Wick Franchise as the fourth film hits the big screen. We celebrate the birthday of […]
Why is the Switch so popular? | Oscar Predictions | Our Favourite 'Seven's
On this issue, we celebrate our 7th Birthday with some things with 7 in the title, our Predictions for the Oscar wins, plus we look into why the Nintendo Switch has become the third best selling console of all time.
Christmas Gift Guide | Top 3 Things of 2022
On this issue, The team pick their geeky gifts for the season for under £20, under £100 and their Ultimate Xmas Gift, plus pick their Top 3 things of 2022!
Twitter Implosion | Andor
On this issue, The team talk about Elon Musk's seemingly doomed takeover of Twitter, why Andor is a refreshing change of direct for live action Star Wars plus a whole lot more!
Stadia Shutdown | Don't Worry Darling | Wakanda Forever Trailer
On this issue, The team talk about the shut down of Google's Stadia and meander into the topic of digital rights and what you really own... Ryan and Leigh have been to see Don't Worry Darling the latest film from Director / Actor Olivia Wilde, surrounded by controversy and starring Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Gemma Chan, Chris Pine, Kiki Layne and Nick Kroll (and NOT Shia LaBeouf), is there still a great film in there? Also Keith introduces us to the character of Namor, The Submariner who's appearing in the next MCU movie, Wakanda Forever. Plus lots more!
Disney D23 | Apple Event September 2022
On this issue, Keith takes over the main chair as we talk all things Disney #d23expo2022 plus discuss the latest Apple event including the #iphone14 and #applewatchultra and out latest […]
She Hulk Attorney at Law | NOPE | VS Fighting X
On this issue, we review the first episode of #shehulk, Ryan goes to watch #NOPE, Mat watches #TekkenBloodline, Keith watches #lockeandkey, plus a whole lot more! Timestamps and links at: https://geekybrummie.com/podcast/geeky-brummie-podcast-year-6-issue-07/
Thor Love and Thunder Review | Commonwealth eSports Championship
On this issue, we review #thorloveandthunder , discuss the Commonwealth eSports Championships coming to Brum as part of #cwg2022 and pick what songs would anchor us in reality in homage to #strangerthings4, plus a whole lot more!
Paramount Plus UK Launch | Summer Games Roundup
On this issue, we discuss the launch of yet another streaming service in the UK, Paramount Plus, we look at some of the game showcases that have appeared in absence of E3 and, plus reviews of Everything Everywhere All At Once, TMNT: Shredders Revenge & lots more!
Love, Death and Robots S3 | Death of the iPod
On this issue, we discuss the death of the iPod after over 2 decades of service, the works of Sam Raimi, and discuss some of the best (and worst) Love Death and Robots episodes ahead of Season 3. Timestamps: 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:30 Mat watches Attack on Titan 00:02:45 Leigh watches Sonic 2 00:06:24 Leigh watches The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent 00:07:25 Shanice plays Death's Door 00:10:10 Keith watches Moon Knight 00:11:20 Keith watches Dr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 00:12:10 Keith watches Everything Everywhere All At Once 00:13:24 Keith plays Trek to Yomi 00:14:25 Ryan also watches Dr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 00:16:15 Ryan moans about where his Black Hole figures are 00:17:00 The oeuvre of Sam Rami 00:19:50 Love Death & Robots 00:23:20 What's up with Netflix and cancelling shows? 00:28:30 Ryan stops ranting 00:28:55 Goodbye iPod 00:47:15 Outro -----